Amit Kumar
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301 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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Yeah, we have these egocentric biases.
This is sort of the scientific term for these perspective-based asymmetries where we're thinking about things from our perspective.
But in these contexts, these are interpersonal exchanges.
They involve other people.
And so it really matters what's going on in the mind of another person, what their perspective is.
I'm not the first person to suggest that being kind to other people improves well-being.
And yet we have
tons of opportunities to be kind to other people that we don't take advantage of.
And I think it's interesting to think about why we don't act in ways that are likely to make us feel better.
And one of those, one of the explanations for why we sometimes
choose not to do those things that are going to make both us and someone else feel better is that we don't fully understand sort of the magnitude of the impact that we're having on another person.
Recipients feel they say things like a little good goes a long way.
What we find in our research is that it actually goes even further than people expect that it will.
We underestimate how much value these acts will have on the people that we're kind to.
We had recipients of that act of kindness kind of play one of these economic games that are used to explore what are sometimes called pay it forward effects.
So participants are assigned the role.
They're told that they're sort of the decider.
They're asked to allocate some money between themselves and another person.
This is someone that they'd never meet.
And so everybody that received an item, in this case, again, it was either from the experimenter for their participation or as a result of their act of kindness, they're assigned to be this decider.
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